Born [1] at Senftenberg in Bohemia, a Czech, the son of a poor watchmaker. Educated at the Königsgratz Gymnasium, and in 1861 entered as a student at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, the teachers being Hyrtl, Skoda, Brücke, Oppolzer, and Rokitansky. He took his doctor's degree in 1867 and became assistant to Dumreicher [2]; refusing a post at Liège, he was appointed Professor Ordinarius of Surgery at Innsbruck in 1872, where he remained for eight years, gaining great credit as a surgeon and as an elegant writer. He accepted the Listerian treatment of wounds, and acted as a pioneer of modern surgery in Austria as Volkmann did in Germany. On the death of Professor Dumreicher Albert was appointed to the Chair of Surgery in Vienna to the exclusion of Czerny, the other candidate. In this position he soon made a European reputation, and had as his pupils Mayle of Prague, Lorenz, Hochenegg, Schnitzler, Ewald, von Friedländer, and many others. Albert's writings deal in great part with gynaecology and abdominal surgery [3], but he also translated Czech lyrics into German. He was a man of outstanding personality both physically and mentally. He died suddenly on Sept 26th 1900, at the villa he had built on the heights at Senftenberg, where as a boy he herded cows. There is a portrait of him in the College Collection. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] 20 January 1841; [2] 'Johann' added, together with 'Prof. of Surgery at Vienna'; [3] The principal works were:- *Diagnostik der chirurgischen Krankheiten*, 8 aufl 1900, *Lehrbuch der Chirurgie*, 4 aufl, 1890-91, *Beiträger zur Geschichte der Chirurgie* 1877-8]